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Friday, May 09, 2008

Killer Is Creating A New Breed of Concept Metal

By Ron Gonzales
For the Journal
      Some bands toil for years and years to get noticed; some play countless shows and release music independently and never get beyond the local level. Some bands, like A Different Breed of Killer, seem a bit more fortunate.
       Based on a two-song demo, recorded when much of its current lineup was not even in the band, A Different Breed caught the attention of Rise Records, home to the up-and-coming metal bands The Devil Wears Prada, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous. And on April 29, the band dropped its first album, the impossibly heavy “I, Colossus,” an album that seems to belie its relative youth.
       “We don't consider ourselves to be young, musically,” drummer Nija Walker said in a Journal interview. “The experience between us makes us an experienced band, and it doesn't matter how long we've been together as a group.”
       The band recorded “I, Colossus” with famed metal producer Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, Through the Eyes of the Dead), which at first stressed the newbies out just a little bit.
       “We weren't necessarily ready, not sure of what to expect and you wouldn't be able to grasp the tension in there on the first day of recording,” Walker said. “But a week into it, we were ready to knock it out and make it happen.”
       With the help of King, Walker and the band were able to flesh out a uniquely dark sound, especially important with so much metal flooding the current scene. One of King's innovations, an ear-blasting, speaker-busting bass boom found on several tracks, even surprised Walker the first time he heard it.
       “He came to that one and we all went, ‘Whoa,' when we heard it on his system,” Walker said. “It worked great because going in there we definitely wanted a lot of subsonic frequencies, and we wanted to hit every frequency range possible from the low guitar chugs to the highest notes.”
       The band also came up with a rather heady concept lyrically for “I, Colossus.” The story centers on a sort of super soldier, created in a laboratory somewhere that eventually becomes unstable and turns on his creators.
   

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A Different Breed of Killer WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 14
       WHERE: The Compound, 3206 San Mateo Blvd. N.E. (just north of Candelaria)
       HOW MUCH: Tickets are $8 at the door. All ages

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